kernel dist-git

[Jon Masters]

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 12:35 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:48:49AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>  
>  > The next person to rebase will get to rewrite rebase.sh to work in the
>  > new world order.  When you do that, make it fiddle baserelease back to 1
>  > while you're at it.  That and rpmdev-bumpspec will probably make for all
>  > the release-number-setting magic we should really care to think we need.
> 
> it's currently busted anyway, since kernel.org changed their output again.
> If rc7 come out right now, the finger banner would show it as
> 'the latest mainline', but it would also show rc6-gitwhatever as 'latest snapshot'.
> 
> why did they make it do this ? hell knows. I looked at fixing it, but just
> made it worse, so gave up on it for now. I've been rebasing by hand since.
> 
> I wonder if ketchup has already solved this. We could just use that to get
> the version number.

Did you ping John Hawley (who did the k.o bits for that)?

Jon.